Hontel - Telnet Honeypot

HonTel is a Honeypot for Telnet service. Basically, it is a Python v2.x application emulating the service inside the chroot environment. Originally it has been designed to be run inside the Ubuntu environment, though it could be easily adapted to run inside any Linux environment.

Note: Some botnets tend to delete the files from compromised hosts (e.g. /bin/bash) in order to harden itself from potential attempts of cleaning and/or attempts of installation coming from other (concurent) botnets. In such cases either the whole chroot environment has to be reinstalled or host directory where the chroot directory resides (e.g. /srv/chroot/) should be recovered from the previously stored backup (recommended).